Nasher

He started getting called Plugger on here after his hot streak in 2018. It reached its peak with the over the shoulder kick to nab the game against West Coast over in Perth. It’s an ironic term of endearment. I don’t believe anyone actually thinks Tom McDonald is as good as Tony Lockett.

Can’t speak for Werridee but I just assumed he was out given he was subbed off. If they mentioned once on the broadcast why Langdon went off, I certainly didn’t hear it.

Harmes was 2-3 apparently. Melk a lock for #200. I thought Dunstan was pretty good defensively but sloppy with the ball.

Out: Langdon

How good was that Richmond ceremony. More of that please.

That’s a rough assessment. He’s untidy with the ball, which is why he isn’t best 22, but he’ll play whenever Viney can’t.

They threw everything at us for 3 quarters and we pulled further ahead each time. The dam wall broke at the end. Enjoyable game, just loving watching this team.

Yep. If I was a North supporter I’d be happy with that quarter. They put in. I said it last week that there are no bad teams, only teams that can’t sustain effort and North are one of them. There’s still plenty of time for the lapse to come and for us to skip away.

The main thing I love about about this team is even when teams bring their best heat, they still can’t score. North’s absolute best, which they won’t be able to sustain, sees them 10 points behind and it should be more. Loving that Gawn and TMac have gone the sleeves in the Narrm strip in addition to the usual suspects. Looks great.

The intro from Kozzie on Fox gave me goosebumps. I could run through a brick wall. Go Narrm.

If every team would pay it, it’s not overs, it’s just his worth. (Because I know what you were looking for was some pedant to nitpick on a single line of your post 😁)

Indeed, given the description was “hamstring awareness”, it sounds more precautionary than anything.

On your first paragraph, you are way overthinking it. The most simple explanation is Melksham is the player most suited to the role Harmes plays, and Dunstan is the player most suited to the role Viney plays. I reckon as fans, we try to make selection out to be way more complicated than it is. Selectors making last minute announcements to “keep a player hungry” is surely not a thing.

Didn’t miss a beat with Dunstan in last time. It’s an awesome to be in a position where we’ve got AFL quality backups ready to go on every line.

Harmes is out for at least 2. A defender will come out for Salem, most likely Rivers. Unless Melksham is beyond terrible or gets injured, he’ll play #200 next week.

Exactly my first thought too: probably the closest like-for-like option available. I don’t mind it. Good luck to him, hope he gets to 200. He’s been an excellent servant of the club since coming over from Essendon.

That sounds like one of those stupid things that football supporters say because they saw it once. It's a bit like Ed LaNgDoN iS a BuTcHeR from Freo fans when he came here - sure you don't want him attempting laser passes to a teammate who's swamped by 4 oppoonents, but by and large he is competent. At ground level, of course you'd prefer Kozzie, but it was never sensible to call him "useless", and he hasn't miraculously improved since coming to the MFC.

This is my take too. Chandler verdict regretfully correct. Ryan verdict a ridiculous under-reaction.

Lol. The prospect of maybe receiving a $500 fine would be weighing pretty heavy.

The argument that Hawkins or whoever would be let off because they’re a big name player or some other reason is a red herring. Other players being incorrectly let of is not a justification to let another player off incorrectly.

I think there’s an argument that if the tackle occurs in a manner that causes the player to hit his head on the turf without being able to protect himself, then it can’t possibly have been a safe or legal tackle, the two conditions are mutually exclusive. The fact as argued by Redleg that Chandler let go before Foley hit the ground is a technicality, which is not relevant to the case. If he let go, it wasn’t early enough to prevent the result that occurred, and it is self evident that if the player could have softened his own blow, he would have. I think Chandler will serve time, and I think that’s right. I feel sorry for Chandler as this was an accident and he was clearly upset by it, but I believe there is an ongoing need to incentivise players to take as much care as practicable when tackling.

I felt terrible for Kade Chandler. You’re frequently right on the very edge of the team. You come on with 15 to go and the result well beyond doubt, you have to make every chance to state your case count. He was trying to aggressively defend and he almost got it right, but ended up injuring the player. It was an accident and he seemed shaken.

Some harsh views on what was a total pummelling. I don’t agree that it was ugly, or that we were in a second gear or whatever. There are no teams in the AFL that are bad at the game, just teams that can’t sustain a 4 quarter effort. West Coast had two quarters of solid effort that matched ours and still couldn’t make any inroads. We completely destroyed them in the two quarters where their effort dropped off. It would have been nice to convert better, but other than that I’m really not sure what else we need to do before people will be happy.

Out: Harmes In: Dunstan

Not much can be said about that. West Coast played in the second and third quarters. They’re no good.